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DCs asked to keep
watch on market,
rural job schemes

3-day confce ends in Dhaka

The government has directed the deputy commissioners for keeping a close watch on the commodity market and ensuring proper implementation of a new rural employment scheme meant for the hardcore poor...[ + ]

DIALOGUES WITH PARTIES
Govt starts work on modalities, panel
of advisers meets
AL team

A panel of advisers has started working on modalities of the much-awaited dialogues between the military-controlled interim government and political parties for transition to democracy by holding of parliamentary elections in December...[ + ]

Food crisis worries Khaleda
She says Hasina should get
treatment as she wants

Detained BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday expressed her concern over the skyrocketing prices of essentials and termed the food crisis a ‘famine-like situation’, said her lawyers...[ + ]

Hasina doubts if polls
will be held by Dec

Says she will accept punishment if food
made affordable

The detained former prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said she had doubt if the ninth parliamentary elections would held by end-December...[ + ]

Other Headlines
» Govt may cut subsidies to fund rural employment scheme
» DU convocation held amid protests
» Army has brought nation back on track: Fakhruddin
» Musharraf’s ally hit by shoe in Pak assembly
» Interns’ strike paralyses Sylhet hospital
» Decision on Hasina, Khaleda a must for ending standoff: Prof Muzaffer
» Ershad doubts polls by 2008
» 49 rebels killed in Lanka
» ADB pulls out of Phulbari open pit mine project
» British home secretary arrives today
» Tarique’s wife seeks bail in graft case
» Nepal hit by pre-election bombings
» BTMA rejects govt request to reduce gas consumption
» Saudi minister allays fears of job loss of Bangladeshis
» Appellate Division to hear ACC plea on April 15
» Zimbabwe court delays poll ruling again
» Hillary campaign in crisis mode after top strategist quits
» Another power plant shut down in Ctg
» Chinese FM arrives April 24
» ACC secy, 2 other officials transferred
» NIG condemns WB comments on transit to India
» IO visits CUFL jetty
» India strengthens presence in African Indian Ocean Rim


Banks must have depositor directors: BB chief

The issue of appointing bank directors from depositors heads for a confrontation with the central bank vowing to go by book and banks planning to challenge the move in court, banking sources said. Bangladesh Bank governor Salehuddin Ahmed on Monday said appointment of directors from depositors would be made according to laws...[ + ]

Saudi Arabia to help product harmonisation

Riyadh has assured Dhaka of giving technical assistance for standard harmonization of products to pave the way for a greater market access of Bangladeshi products. The Saudi officials also agreed to facilitate more exchange of visits between the business communities of the two countries for exploring investment potentials in Bangladesh...[ + ]

Other Headlines
» Exporters earn $1.2 billion in Feb
» 191 KPM workers sent on retirement
» Turkish garment exporters offer strategic partnerships
» Stocks drop for second day
» Oil inches higher near $107 in Asia
» ASEAN’s top challenge dev gap
» StanChart closes commodity derivative deal with Square Textiles
» India opens tourism office in China
» Global economy battling crisis of confidence: OECD
» ECB warns Asian economies on monetary policy
» Vietnam to build second oil refinery with Kuwait, Japan firms
» Southeast Bank holds workshop
» China, New Zealand ink FTA
» Novartis to buy Nestle’s Alcon stakes for $39b
» BOJ nominee on eve of G-7 meeting
» Businessmen concern at slow Philippine reforms
» China capable of feeding its people: PM
» Dollar rebounds as traders look beyond gloomy US data
» Stock Watch


Weekend


Govt plans to appoint ADB consultant
for study

The government has planned to appoint an aviation consultant from Asian Development Bank to conduct a study for outsourcing the management and operation of Shah Amanat International Airport, Chittagong to a private operator. The civil aviation and trouism ministry has already written to the multilateral lending agency, seeking the assistance following the recommendations put forward by a six-member committee...[ + ]

Proper management
of rivers in
Khulna region demanded

About 40 lakh people of 15 upazilas in Khulna, Satkhira and Jessore will face permanent water logging within two years if Kobadak and Harisree Bhadra rivers, which are about to dry up, are not excavated immediately, speakers at a seminar in Khulna warned Monday...[ + ]



Tigers begin Mission Pakistan today

Bangladesh will be looking to capitalise on the recent turbulence in Pakistan cricket when they will take on the hosts in the first of the five-match series at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Tuesday. The day-night match will start at 4:00pm (Bangladesh time) and will be televised live by Ten Sports and Bangladesh Television...
[ + ]

Windies deny Lanka Test sweep

Sri Lanka failed in their bid to win a Test series in the Caribbean for the first time when Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul led the West Indies to a six-wicket victory in the second and final Test on Sunday...[ + ]


Editorial
» Belated realisation and worthy reminder
» More than planes, Biman needs new management
Op-Ed
» The regulator that Bangladesh tourism needs
» General entrap-us or general entrapped?

National
» Work on 4 river ports to start in July
» Citizens speak against privatisation
International
» Tamil Tiger rebels raise funds in US: report
» Qadeer Khan confessed to ‘save’ Pakistan
Timeout
» Two-day film show begins today
» Cultural programme by Mandira Shilpi Goshthi held

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